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title: "278 Ponds Quotes by 208 authors"
description: "Browse 278 Ponds quotes by 208 authors. Discover the best Ponds sayings and thoughts."
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> [Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matsuo-basho/old-pond-frog-jumps-in-plop/)

[Matsuo Basho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matsuo-basho/)

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> [The fox often offers the duck its pond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jordan/the-fox-often-offers-the-duck-its-pond/)

[Robert Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jordan/)

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> [Swim out of your little pond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/swim-out-of-your-little-pond/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

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> [If you purify the pond, the lilies die](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-stafford/if-you-purify-the-pond-the-lilies-die/)

[William Stafford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-stafford/)

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> [Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sark/be-an-electric-eel-in-a-goldfish-pond/)

[Sark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sark/)

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> [Empty the pond to get the fish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bresson/empty-the-pond-to-get-the-fish/)

[Robert Bresson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bresson/)

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> [Love, we are a small pond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/love-we-are-a-small-pond/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

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> [I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-keibler/i-prefer-being-a-small-fish-in-a-big-pond/)

[Stacy Keibler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-keibler/)

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> [It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donnie-mcclurkin/it-s-a-poor-frog-that-doesn-t-praise-his-own-pond-donnie-mcclurkin/)

[Donnie McClurkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donnie-mcclurkin/)

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> [In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yosa-buson/in-the-spring-rain-the-pond-and-the-river-have-become-one/)

[Yosa Buson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yosa-buson/)

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> [Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisi-harrison/are-you-nervous-about-no-longer-being-a-big-fish-in-a-small-pond/)

[Lisi Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisi-harrison/)

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> [If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prashant-iyengar/if-you-are-looking-for-a-whale-you-cannot-search-for-a-whale-in-a/)

[Prashant Iyengar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prashant-iyengar/)

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> [At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-s-swaminathan/at-least-five-cents-in-every-acre-should-be-reserved-for-the/)

[M. S. Swaminathan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-s-swaminathan/)

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> [While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/while-some-men-believe-in-the-infinite-some-ponds-will-be-thought-to/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“You've thrown a lot of pennies in ponds," she says. "Haven't you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-lillis/you-ve-thrown-a-lot-of-pennies-in-ponds-she-says-haven-t-you/)

[J.C. Lillis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-lillis/)

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> [Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-love-peacock/marriage-may-often-be-a-stormy-lake-but-celibacy-is-almost-always-a-2/)

[Thomas Love Peacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-love-peacock/)

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> [Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" \[translated literally as the strange duck in the pond.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddy-de-clercq/even-nowadays-some-people-see-me-as-a-vreemde-eend-in-de-bijt/)

[Eddy de Clercq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddy-de-clercq/)

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> [What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/what-i-want-to-bring-out-is-how-a-pebble-cast-into-a-pond-causes/)

[Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/)

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> [Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-grisham/ten-years-from-now-i-plan-to-be-sitting-here-looking-out-over-my-land/)

[John Grisham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-grisham/)

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> [It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loudon-wainwright-iii/it-s-hard-for-the-modern-generation-to-understand-thoreau-who-lived/)

[Loudon Wainwright III](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loudon-wainwright-iii/)

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> [Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-dessen/looking-at-the-pond-all-i-could-think-was-that-it-is-an-incredivle/)

[Sarah Dessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-dessen/)

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> [Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-wright/doing-stand-up-is-like-running-across-a-frozen-pond-with-the-ice/)

[Steven Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-wright/)

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> [I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-am-no-more-lonely-than-the-loon-in-the-pond-that-laughs-so-loud-or/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/behdad-sami/some-people-like-being-a-big-fish-in-a-small-pond-others-a-ferocious/)

[Behdad Sami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/behdad-sami/)

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> [When you speak to a man or a woman about money, they will use water visualizations. For men, it typically is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sallie-krawcheck/when-you-speak-to-a-man-or-a-woman-about-money-they-will-use-water/)

[Sallie Krawcheck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sallie-krawcheck/)

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> [The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-h-lderlin/the-earth-with-yellow-pearsand-overgrown-with-roses-wildupon-the-pond/)

[Friedrich Holderlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-h-lderlin/)

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> [There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lester-patrick/there-is-only-one-way-a-boy-can-be-sure-to-learn-to-play-hockey-on/)

[Lester Patrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lester-patrick/)

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> [How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/how-heron-comes-it-is-a-negligence-of-the-mind-not-to-notice-how-at/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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> [When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grimes/when-an-artist-or-whomever-moves-from-their-scene-to-the-bigger-pond/)

[Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grimes/)

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> [Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/rather-very-little-pretty-these-are-the-leeches-that-infest-the-pond/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherwood-smith/memory-warps-time-as-it-does-the-sights-and-sounds-and-smells-of/)

[Sherwood Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherwood-smith/)

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> [Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/each-portion-of-matter-may-be-conceived-of-as-a-garden-full-of-plants/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juliet-marillier/i-do-not-view-suicide-as-wicked-just-terribly-sad-there-is-only-one/)

[Juliet Marillier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juliet-marillier/)

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> [We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-hepburn/we-were-brought-up-in-the-school-that-teaches-you-do-what-the-script/)

[Katharine Hepburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-hepburn/)

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> [Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-schneider/life-s-dirty-life-s-unclean-you-know-it-s-birth-it-s-sex-it-s-the/)

[Andrew Schneider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-schneider/)

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> [There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-de-maupassant/there-are-some-delightful-places-in-this-world-which-have-a-sensual/)

[Guy de Maupassant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-de-maupassant/)

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> [Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ashworth/set-the-basketball-on-the-kitchen-table-open-a-cupboard-get-out-a/)

[William Ashworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-ashworth/)

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> [The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-phenomena-of-the-year-take-place-every-day-in-a-pond-on-a-small/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/maybe-we-all-have-in-us-a-secret-pond-where-evil-and-ugly-things-2/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-l-pez/what-does-it-mean-to-grow-rich-is-it-to-have-red-blooded-adventures/)

[Barry Lopez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-l-pez/)

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## Top authors on Ponds

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ponds/henry-david-thoreau/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-matsuo-basho-65391.jpg) Matsuo Basho 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ponds/matsuo-basho/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mary-oliver-65135.jpg) Mary Oliver 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ponds/mary-oliver/)

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                        "text": "How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light",
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                        "text": "Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.",
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                        "text": "We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.",
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                        "text": "Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.",
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                        "text": "There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.",
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                        "text": "Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?",
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                        "text": "The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water isbeing warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature.",
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